On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 17:47:50 +0200, Matthias Hopf wrote: > As multiple driver modules are loaded now on startup time (even if they > aren't actually used) we get something now that has not really been a > problem so far: > > Name clashes. > > We at SUSE additionally load radeonhd and radeon, and there the clashes > are most severe - I found 167 name clashes, which result in certain > death on r4xx cards with AtomBIOS, because some AtomBIOS routines from > radeonhd are called from the radeon driver, which have the same name but > subtly different semantics. Or values from tables from the one driver > are used with functions of the other. You get the picture. > FWIW we've been building the radeon driver with -fvisibility=hidden for about a year in Debian (and that's the default starting with server 1.7 iirc).
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